This weekend, I went all the way to Hamburg in order to see the only gig by The Frames in Germany. Let me tell you, every single kilometre was absolutely worth it: Glen and the boys played about two hours of awesome, hand-made, emotional rock music. Fitzcarraldo, Revelate, God Bless Mom, Lay Me Down, Seven Day Mile, What Happens When The Heart Just Stops… you name it, they played it (unexpected: Kraftwerk’s Autobahn). And I finally got my hands on their rather obscure, finally re-released debut album Another Love Song. Gee, I wish I could go to Dublin and see one of the four gigs they play in their hometown (1x Olympia Theatre, 1x Vicar Street, 2x Whelan’s); they are all sold-out, though.

Last week, Chris and I gave a talk on studying at the ITT Dublin and living in Ireland. Our institute’s student union (Fachschaft) had organised an information evening for students who consider going abroad.
Afterwards all presentors received a small gift:

The official WIAI student union mug! WIAI is an acronym for Wirtschaftsinformatik und Angewandte Informatik (Information Systems and Applied Computer Science), the name of our school.

By the way: our deck of slides could make use of the rich collection of photos that I uploaded here.